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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
reflective
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It just wasn’t what I was expecting. It felt like it was repeating itself a lot, and I was hoping for some ground-breaking new thoughts behind what it means to create, but most of this was not new to me.
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A collection of mini speeches intended to coach creatives but lacking in substance — its boldest move was the inclusion of fourteen lined pages for reflection.
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"As human beings, we come and go quickly, and we get to make works that stand as monuments to our time here. Michelangelo's David, the first cave paintings, a child's finger-paint landscapes - they all echo the same human cry, like graffiti scrawled in a bathroom stall.
'I was here.'"
Fantastic read for the point I'm at with both my life and my creativity. Lots of interesting points, one in particular filled me with the exact solution I needed at the time. Most likely another point within the book would hit me just as hard later in a potential re-read.
I wondered why this book felt so Buddhist until I looked up Rubin and found that he, indeed, is a Buddhist. The simplicity of the text, the acknowledgement of its own imperfection and willingness to have parts thrown to the wind by the reader if it doesn't fit them lines up exactly. It is curious, though, for the Buddhist artist, how to deal with both the impermanence of the practice and the spirit, yet the innate desire to create art, a form of legacy.
Maybe a bit long. Not why it took me so long to read though, moving out and being in a B12 pit did most of that.
Ruben never mentioning his *insane* accolades and success at the hesitation of creating some sort of authority within the text is insanely cool. He presents himself more as an anonymous nod in the right direction, instead of presenting his medals, accomplishments, and name dropping anywhere in the book.
'I was here.'"
Fantastic read for the point I'm at with both my life and my creativity. Lots of interesting points, one in particular filled me with the exact solution I needed at the time. Most likely another point within the book would hit me just as hard later in a potential re-read.
I wondered why this book felt so Buddhist until I looked up Rubin and found that he, indeed, is a Buddhist. The simplicity of the text, the acknowledgement of its own imperfection and willingness to have parts thrown to the wind by the reader if it doesn't fit them lines up exactly. It is curious, though, for the Buddhist artist, how to deal with both the impermanence of the practice and the spirit, yet the innate desire to create art, a form of legacy.
Maybe a bit long. Not why it took me so long to read though, moving out and being in a B12 pit did most of that.
Ruben never mentioning his *insane* accolades and success at the hesitation of creating some sort of authority within the text is insanely cool. He presents himself more as an anonymous nod in the right direction, instead of presenting his medals, accomplishments, and name dropping anywhere in the book.